Suppose that each of two prisoners has the independent choice of confessing to a crime or not confessing. note that they cannot communicate with each other. if neither confesses, they spend 4 years in jail; if both confess, they spend 6 years in jail; and if one confesses while the other does not, the confessor gets off with 2 years in jail while the other gets 10 years in jail. according to game theory, the likely strategy by the prisoners is:

to confess.

Explanation:

Game theory is used to determine the optimal course of action for rational individuals.

Prisoners dilemma is a form game theory that seeks to find the optimal choice for prisoners between confessing and not confessing.

The optimal choice for the prisoner in this question is to confess because if he does, he spends 6 years in jail or 2 years in jail which is better to not confessing and spending either 4 yards or 10 years in jail.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.